Google gets access to the University of California's system.
34 Million books from 100 libraries on 10 campuses. Online:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/10/content_4943258.htm
Hollywood realises that it's going to sell more 'B' films if it
lets them be burned to DVD after being downloaded:
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Hollywood-Might-Ease-DVD-Copying-Ban/story.xhtml?story_id=023002LYXWMX
Ballbot geats around, balancing on top of a ball the size of a
football. Carnegie Mellon say the person-sized bot is manoeverable:
http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060809_ballbot.html
Hacking a Nokia cellphone to turn it into a Bluetooth mouse:
http://www.pyrofersprojects.com/nokiamouse.php
In memoriam. James Van Allen, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation
belts and head of the Pioneer spacecraft team died on Wednesday at 91:
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060810/NEWS01/608100324/1079
And finally. A generically-modified, perennial grass escapes into the
wild in the US. Concern mounts that it'll pass on herbicide resistance:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125643.100-escaped-golfcourse-grass-frees-gene-genie-in-the-us.html
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.